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0. A. FOOTPQ Harness Buckle.

No. 240,822. Patented May 3,1881.

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N-PEIERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER. WASHXNGTON. D C,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. FOOTE, OF DELHI, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE E. MARVINE, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,822, dated May 3, 1.881. Application filed January 5 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, (humans A. Foo'rn, of Delhi, in the county of Delaware and State of New York, have invented certain new and use- 5 ful Improvements in Harness-Buckles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear. and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same,

I reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification- Figure 1 being a top View of the improved buckle applied to ahame-strap; Fig. 2,a back view of the strap and buckle; Fig. 3, a side I edge View of the same; Fig. 4, a central longitudinal section of the buckle and strap, the strap being shown as buckled into the buckle.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

My improved buckle is especially useful for hame-straps, but is applicable to other straps where the particular purpose which the improvement fulfills is desirable to effect.

In the drawings, A represents the body or 2 5 main frame of the buckle; B, the tongue, turnin g on a cross-bar, a; G, a back plate or flange projecting from another cross-bar, b, to which plate the fixed end of the strap D is attached by a rivet; and E, a loop under which the free 0 end at of the buckled strap is passed. These parts are not new and form no part of my invention, except to serve as means for its apto the buckle may be dispensed with but the cross-bar b, or its equivalent, is essential to 5 my invention.

My improvement consists in a buckle, A, con structed to receive a screw, G, passed through the strap D forward into the cross-bar b, or equivalent part of the buckle, to prevent the slipping of the strap from position when buckling or unbuckling, there being a set of two or more holes, ff, in the strap, through different ones of which the screw Gr may pass to shift the place of the bend of the loop 9 of 5 the strap as it begins to wear too much in any one place, so that the strap is rendered more durable thereby.

The drawings fully represent the improvement and its application; but any non-esseno tial variations therefrom may be used instead of the precise construction shown..

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A bi'ickle-fraine, A, having a buckle at one end, and a middle crossbar adapted to receive a screw, whereby a strap may be adjusted upon its attaching-face, all substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myown I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES A. FOOTE.

WVitnesses W. G. EDGERTON,

plication. The plate O for riveting the strap W. H. GRISWOLD. 

